Cardboard Cut Out Sundown

you hardly know a day goes by 
  in the cardboard cutout sundown 
  the moon popped up like a gallery duck 
  sipped up gold from the sunny cup 
  and longhorns sawed the buggy grass 
  and a cowboy blew a harp sitting on his chapped ass 
  and the prairie flowers didn't look a bit queer 
  and the stars struck the sand cartwheeled 
  and poked in the prairie 
  a cactus juice stand the only place the crows couldn't land 
  the bluebottle flies were as big as a cowboy's eyes 
  and their buzz was as loud as rattlers 
  a fire engine red whistle blows raspberries 
  in a cloud of whipped steam 
  a tunmble weed ran out black patent yarn stinkbug hoops 
  from above a living mail thriving dot 
  in perfect sympathy with the cardboard cutout sundown 
  you hardly know a day goes by 
  in the cardboard cutout sundown